West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-02-10
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
Sturgeon skin makes durable boot an
shoe leather.

Sturgeon skin makes durable boot and
shoe leather
Sponges have been discovered in the
lake at Chautauqua, n. Y.
United States Senator Ransom's wife
fitted each OF her six sons for college.
Prof. Hughes says a silk ribbon is n
better lightning conductor than metal
lie rod.
Erlenmeyer calls cocaine "the third
scourge Of humanity" Morphia and
alcohol are the other two.
a school has been established in the
Island of Formosa for the education of
the natives in medicine and surgery.
Cape Breton has a native 6 feet o.
inches in heighth with his boots on, and
Antigonish had citizen feet inches
in his socks.
The death rate at st. Petersbu o is
said to exceed the birth rate by nearly
100 per month. The city is growing
nevertheless.
Oceans of Milwaukee beer have run
from the spigots of America Therefore
1t is not surprising to read in a Western
exchange that the late Anna Maria
Scblitz, widow OF Brewer Schlitz, "be-
queathed $50, 900 dollars in cash lega-
cies to relatives"
The Southern Practitioner says that
gelatine capsules, so much used in the
administration of unpleasant medicines,
are insoluble in alcohol. For this rea-
son 1t is useless to give medicine in this
form to inebriates or for some days aft or
the excessive use of spirits.
A very curious coincidence recently
occurred at Bethany, Conn. George
Lounsbury, aged ~, and his wife, aged
~, died on the same day and almost the
same instant. They were both taken ill
just week before their death Mr..
Lounsbury died OF a paralytic stroke and
his wife succumbed to typhoid pneumo-
MIA.
Victor Emmanuers monument in the
Pant con of Naples consists of a huge
bronze tablet, seven feet high and 1G
feet long, surmounted by Roman ca
gle which measures ten foot in breadth
OF wing. The whole is made of the
bronze of old cannOns. The single in
scriptiOn is: "Victor Emanuel III, Father
of the Country"
An original genius in Iowa named
Stehr obtained a loan from a money
'SuNSi ny giving O hOIlShBo OH HNe
white steers he claimed to have on his
farm. When the man came to collect
his money the wife demurely presented
her five children. Unfortunately for
Stehr, his creditor could not see the ioka
and in matter of-fact sort of way pro-
ceeded to have him arrested for pro-
curing money fraudulently.
In italian cities the cleaning OF the
streets is sold to the highest bidder at a
public auction. The bidder puts every
400 yards of street IN charge of ono man
and push cart, who is kept constantly
at work from sun rise to sun set and in
the long twilight. At intervals large
carts go around receive the contents of
the push carts. The dirt is taken to a
factory, where it is pressed into blocks
of about cubic yard in dimensions.
These are placed on the market and sold
for fertilizing PURPOSES.
Washington spiders have discovered
that game is plentiful near the electric
lights which illuminate the public build
ings. In consequence their webs are so
thick ard numerous that portions of the
architectural ornamentation arc no
longer visible, and when torn down by
the wind, or when they fall from decay,
the refuse gives dingy and dirty ap.
pearance to everything it comes in con
tact with. Not only this, but these adj
venturers take possession of the portion
OF the ceiling of any room which receives
the illumination.